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SCAPES @scapes-bronzeage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Today we're out visting #Neolithic or #BronzeAge sites across Østfold! Here from the ongoing archaeological excavation at Hunn and rock art site Medgårdskogen, with painted figures rather unique to this region. Can you see them without the decorrelation? 📷: @yrjaskj.bsky.social

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Primitive tider @primitivetider.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New special issue out – a festschrift for Espen Uleberg 💻💾 For decades, he's been the hub of Norwegian #DigitalArchaeology – a pioneer for #FAIR data long before the term existed. This volume is a fitting tribute to that legacy. Gratulerer, Espen! 👏 OA here👇🏽 journals.uio.no/index.php/PT

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Martin Andersson @martinhist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Vi letar ny doktorand i agrarhistoria till ett projekt om hur människor i det förindustriella Sverige fick tillgång till mat – Känner du någon som vill du forska om bröd, öl och gröt i fyra år!? www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

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Doktorand i agrarhistoria | slu.se

Vetenskap och utbildning för hållbart liv.

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Must be «Danish» based on the length!

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Had to do an emergency U-turn with my bike in the middle of traffic just now! Why? Oil stains on the asphalt had the perfect ground plan of a two-aisled house. Even a potential entrance! #LateNeolithic #BronzeAge That's #ArchLife for you 🔍 #ArchaeologistProblems #Archaeology

Oil stains on asphalt forming a rectangular ground plan of a typical Late Neolithic house, with rows of postholes and potential entrance gap

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SCAPES @scapes-bronzeage.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📢 #KielConference2027 Call for Papers! Join our session tracing lives & connecting scales to rethink socio-environmental change through individual life-courses. From isotopes to kinship – micro to macro. 🗓️ 8–12 March 2027 | Submit by 15 Oct @clusterroots.bsky.social

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🐟🌱🔥 Before farming, Mesolithic people introduced fish to Norway's mountains ~5000 BC - actively shaping ecosystems. This wasn't just hunting; it was deliberate environmental management. Important paper by colleagues @historiskmuseum.bsky.social published in @antiquity.ac.uk doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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The introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

The introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Got interviewed by @forskning.bsky.social about my favourite find from an excavation: this 6000-year-old piece of resin from Ime. A #StoneAge site with 🏹 and 🌰, situated in a sheltered spot. Possibly chewed and shaped in the mouth, it bore leaf imprints and smelled of pine during analysis. Link ⬇️

Screenshot from article, showing archaeologist wearing gloves holding a piece of resin. It’s broken in two due to analysis. The archaeologist holds one half between two fingers while the other rests in here palm.

Exaction site in the early morning, with grass and grazing sheep in the background.

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is a powerful reminder that preconceived notions often shape "science" more than evidence does. For 200 years, we assumed a rich burial with tools belonged to a man - but DNA just proved it was a female metalworker. We need to challenge these biases! #Archaeology #BronzeAge

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Primitive tider @primitivetider.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This week our podcast (Arkeologi på rappen) joined ‘Helleristningsjegerne’ on a #rockart hunt, as part off series on upcoming series on citizen science. These three friends have doubled Østfold's known sites from 500 to 1,000+. As published in our journal a few years back: doi.org/10.5617/pt.9...

Four men gather around a rock art panel in a dense forest, using artificial light to rake across the surface and bring out the carved contours of several boat motifs.

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Living as a minority in a heteronormative world trains you to question given truths. That's a superpower, not a weakness. Queer gaze helps us see not just what's present in the archaeological data, but what's been erased or rationalized away. Archaeology needs more of it. 3/

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In my article, I critique how Bronze Age rock art showing same-sex intercourse is almost always explained away — as initiation rites, pederasty, fertility cults. As Judith Butler might ask: why must it have a function? Why can't it just exist as a natural act? 2/

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In connection with #pride, @uio.no made a small video based on my article on the value of ‘queer gaze’ (skeive blikk) in archaeology. Queer archaeology must be more than just making same-sex relations visible, we also need to dwell on explicit expressions without always explaining them away. 🧵 1/

A researcher wearing blue gloves leans over and looks into a gray box in an archaeological storage facility, surrounded by several other gray boxes.

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Call for sessions is out! 🗣️ The 17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in beautiful Visby, Gotland in June 2027. For the 50‑year anniversary, all topics on the Nordic #bronzeage are welcome. Spread the word! www.uu.se/institution/...

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17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium – Institutionen för arkeologi, antik historia och kulturvård – Uppsala universitet

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Meanwhile, across the globe, a hide-shoe was lost in the high Norwegian mountain, melting out of an ice patch 20 years ago. Devastating cause, yet a rear glimpse into the organic side of the region’s #bronzeage, c. 1400 BCE 📷: V. Vike, MCH / @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social Info: secretsoftheice.com

Light brown and heavily worn hide-shoe, with a hole in the sole at the toe end and tied laces at the heel

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Proud that our article on the Hole rune‑stone, currently the earliest archaeologically dated, was among the 20 most‑read articles of 2025! Many thanks to @steinarsol.bsky.social @kristelzilmer.bsky.social @kristervasshus.bsky.social, and other co-authors

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Of the couple hundred dissertations defended at the University of Oslo last year, it’s cool to see mine get a mention in @uio.no’s research journal, Apollon. Arguing for a more pluralistic understanding of the #BronzeAge in southeast Norway's forested landscape to challenge ‘plant blindness’ 🌱

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Mette Lovschal @lovschal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Fellow (290375) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (290375), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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SCAPES @scapes-bronzeage.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

SCAPES postdoctor @annapp90.bsky.social is currently sampling human remains to explore population development and Norway’s Neolithic transition. Did agriculture arrive with colonizers? Did groups cooperate or clash? Did they eat a primarily terrestrial or maritime diet? #Archaeology #aDNA #isotopes

A researcher in lab coat and gloves extracting samples for DNA and isotope analysis. The sampling is overseen by a second researcher.

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There's lots of ongoing work as we're preparing for the new Museum of the Viking Age to open in Oslo. Our museum, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social is now hiring an Associate Professor in Nordic archaeology, with expertise in the Viking Age. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... #Vikingtidsmuseet

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Førsteamanuensis innen nordisk arkeologi (284576) | Universitetet i Oslo

Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis innen nordisk arkeologi (284576), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Oslo, Søknadsfrist: lørdag 31. januar 2026

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology. Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology

This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

These little things? Just some Stone Age #axes (and a dagger). Effective display of #neolithic time depth. Definitely not the worst day at the office!

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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Photo of an empty, muddy, old plastic bottle with a single handle. The bottle is lying on soil surrounded by stones of varying shapes and sizes. The side of the bottle with handle is uppermost. The mouth end of the container points towards bottom left of the picture.

There is text above the image of the plastic bottle which reads “Ancient skull found on archaeological dig is proof of our alien origins”. Having read the text, at first glance the plastic bottle looks similar to an alien skull. The body of the bottle looks like a long skull,the handle looks like a nose, and the indents with shadow either side of the handle look like eyes. An example of pareidolia!

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Could very well have been decisive 😬

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

History in motion! The iconic Oseberg Viking ship is carefully moving to its new position in the soon-to-open #VikingAge Museum in Oslo. This deserves the full #SlowTV treatment - a nationally broadcast, minute-by-minute epic! #Archaeology @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social

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European Association of Archaeologists @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Every year the Secrets of the Ice programme recover amazingly well preserved artefacts emerging from melting mountain ice in #Norway. This project raises awareness about glacial archaeology and human-induced climate change. They are the recipients of 2025 Europa Nostra Award in the Research category

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Melting ice in norway reveals fragments of the world’s only known Viking Age packhorse net

New Viking Age packhorse net fragments discovered in Norway’s melting ice reveal rare transport tools and ancient secrets.

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Primitive tider @primitivetider.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Arkeologi leverer stadig banebrytende ny forskning, men gjør det den eldre irrelevante i dag? Vi utforske dette i vår nye serie "Klassikeren". Først ut er Håkon Glørstads anmeldelse av Håkon Sheteligs "Primitive tider i Norge" doi.org/10.5617/pt.1... Årets nummer er på trappene! Hva blir neste?

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Glørstad: Bokanmeldelse: Haakon Shetelig (1922) Primitive Tider i Norge - en oversigt over stenalderen. John Griegs Forlag, Bergen | Primitive tider

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Exiting! Best of luck these last days 💪

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

An incredible tour of Trøndelag’s amazing rock art sites in central Norway - where motifs of northern and southern traditions blend in stunning landscapes. A successful workshop with @scapes-bronzeage.bsky.social, @kiaustvoll.bsky.social, @kristinaoma.bsky.social & more! #RockArt #Archaeology

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Thanks, Sarah! Hope everything is good down in Kiel 😎

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Occasionally, I get to write prehistoric columns for the newspaper Klassekampen. This time, I explore a newfound interest - #tattoos. While we know relatively a lot about them, future studies should explore their interplay with clothing. Contributing in enhancing our understanding of embodiment.

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Thanks to all making this possible, @uio.no, @historiskmuseum.bsky.social and beyond, especially my incredible team of supervisors: @steinarsol.bsky.social, @kiaustvoll.bsky.social and @lovschal.bsky.social!

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Just defended my PhD! An incredible experience, with thought-provoking discussions from two brilliant opponents: Prof. Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and Prof. @kristinaoma.bsky.social. Including a trial lecture debating the presence of warriors and hierarchy in Scandinavian rock art 👇🏽

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Recognising the impact other species have had on our art, architecture and agriculture doesn’t require new archaeological discoveries – in fact, much of the archaeological evidence is decades old. Rather, it requires new ways of thinking.» Yess, what a great text in @aeon.co - check it out 👇🏽

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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Early #FindsFriday news! Until now, the female #Bronzeage burial from #Rege in #Norway, has been compared to the famous Egtved #burial. On closer look, the Rege #beltplate is technically more advanced, more skillfull - we need to look for better comparisons! Presumably on the #Danish islands!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🧪OMG please do not start putting 'helpful' (presumably AI) summaries of articles into the individual REFERENCES of a scientific publication ffs (this is @nature.com ) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#NBAS2025 is back! Great presentation by Lise Frost @au.dk about the Hedegyden find and the value of the microperspective, showing how hoards are more than just the bronzes, it may also contain, e.g., honey! 🐝 A find demonstrating how we should rethink how we sample and our sampling strategies 🌱

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